“All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.” IfsNaturalEffortPovertyEnvironmentDevelopmentResourcesEnvironmentalDefeatPursueVainOur EnvironmentDegradationNatural ResourcesSustainable DevelopmentNatural EnvironmentEnvironmental DegradationResource Depletion Author:Kofi Annan
“If responsibility for the upbringing of children is to continue to be vested in the family, then the rights of children will be secured only when parents are able to make a living for their families with so little difficulty that they may give their best thought and energy to the child's development and the problem of helping it adjust itself to the complexities of the modern environment.” IfsGivingMayChildrenLittlesHelpingProblemAbleEnergyParentResponsibilityPovertyEnvironmentRightsModernDevelopmentDifficultyComplexityUpbringingSecured Author:Suzanne La Follette
“We have to use all of America's strengths to build a world with more partners and fewer adversaries, more shared responsibility and fewer conflicts, more good jobs and less poverty, more broadly based prosperity with less damage to our environment.” WorldUseJobsAmericaResponsibilityPovertyUnited StatesEnvironmentConflictProsperityPartnersDamageFewerGood JobAdversariesOur EnvironmentShared Responsibility Book:Hard Choices Source: Hard Choices
“We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty. But you can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.” ThinkingFirstsLastsPovertyEnvironmentVacuums Author:Wangari Maathai
“We refuse to share resources; we govern irresponsibly. If we are confident, if we have some of our cultural values, then we would be more committed to assisting our people out of poverty and creating an environment that can make it possible for our friends to assist us.” PeopleIfsWould BeValuesPovertyEnvironmentShareCreatingResourcesCommittedRefuseAssisting Author:Wangari Maathai
“The basic building block of peace and security for all peoples is economic and social security, anchored in sustainable development. It is a key to all problems. Why? Because it allows us to address all the great issues-poverty, climate, environment and political stability-as parts of the whole.” WholeProblemPoliticalSocialPovertyIssuesEnvironmentEconomicSecurityBuildingKeysDevelopmentClimateEnvironmentalBlockAddressesStabilitySustainabilitySocial SecuritySustainable DevelopmentBuilding BlocksPeace And Security Author:Ban Ki-moon
“It is up to us to take care of this planet, it is our only home. To betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us. Because whatever you're fighting for, racism or poverty. Feminism, gay rights or any type of equality. It won't matter in the least. Because if we don't all work together to save the environment, we will be equally extinct.” IfsHeartSoulMatterHomeCareTogetherFightingRealizingPovertyEnvironmentRightsFeminismPlanetsTypeGayRacismClimateWarmTake CareWorking TogetherBetrayGay RightsSave The EnvironmentSave Nature Author:Prince Ea
“Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions.” IndividualPovertyEnvironmentGrewGrew UpIntentionNeighborhoodWrong ThingsDetours Author:Kevin Gates
“The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.” PeopleFictionPovertyRichEnvironmentDangerousTruth IsCleaningAlcoholismPresentingReservations Author:Stephen Graham Jones
“Bolivia also depends not only on tin and other minerals, but also depends on the gas and oil. A rational extraction should be made, taking care of the environment. We should give added value to this natural resource, and generate revenue to fight poverty with more resources, that come from natural resources.” GivingShouldMadeCareValuesFightingNaturalPovertyEnvironmentDependsResourcesOilRationalGasRevenueNatural ResourcesMineralsTinBoliviaExtractionAdded Value Author:Evo Morales
“We cannot feast on global resources while the world's poor struggle to survive on inhospitable lands. It is as simple as that. It is the rich who are making the world poorer. Environment and Poverty are one crisis, not two.” WorldTwoSimplePoorPovertyStruggleRichEnvironmentLandResourcesCrisis Author:Petra Kelly
“I've said that, that I've felt like as Christians and particularly even as Republicans, we needed to address issues that touched the broader perspective, and that included disease, hunger, poverty, homelessness, the environment.” SaidChristianFeltPovertyIssuesEnvironmentPerspectiveNeededRepublicanDiseaseHungerAddressesTouchedHomelessnessHunger Poverty Author:Mike Huckabee
“We know that there are several predisposing factors to gun violence: poverty, lack of education, lack of good parenting, lack of jobs, living in an environment where violence is seen every day, all the time. And children being born to children are likely to have all of these predisposing factors.” KnowsChildrenJobsBornPovertyEnvironmentViolenceGunFactorsGun ViolenceGood ParentLack Of EducationGood Parenting Author:Joycelyn Elders
“We would solve a lot of huge problems that are causing massive suffering. Poverty, violence, homophobia, heterosexism, racism, the environment - all these things that are crippling us. We need big, bold, dangerous, crazy ideas to solve these problems. When failure is not an option, innovation and creativity are not options.” NeedsIdeasProblemBigsSufferingPovertyCreativityEnvironmentViolenceCrazyDangerousHugeRacismInnovationSolveMassiveHomophobiaCreativity And InnovationFailure Is Not An OptionCrazy Ideas Author:Brené Brown
“Every other word out of every other Chinese mouth is "development, development, development, development." And that's what they're talking about it - because they believe it, A, enables them, with development, to have the kind of status they want in the world, and B, it enables them to deal with their internal problems, having to do with poverty, urban-rural as well as the environment.” WorldWantBelieveWellsKindProblemDealsTalkingPovertyEnvironmentDevelopmentMouthsChineseInternalsUrban Author:Charlie Rose
“We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty and send children to school and provide health.” ThinkingFirstsChildrenSchoolLastsPovertyEnvironment Author:Wangari Maathai
“You can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.” PovertyEnvironmentVacuums Author:Wangari Maathai
“When you look at what [new generation] believe in, how they value diversity, how they believe in science, how they care about the environment, how they believe in, you know, everybody getting a fair shot, how they believe in not discriminating against people for sexual orientation and you know, their belief that we have to work with other countries to create a more peaceful world and to alleviate poverty, that's the majority an entire generation that's coming up behind us.” PeopleKnowsWorldBelieveLooksCountryCareValuesBeliefBehindsPovertyEnvironmentGenerationsDiversityShotsFairsMajorityPeacefulOther CountriesBelieve In YouOrientationNew GenerationAlleviatePeaceful World Author:Barack Obama
“The solution for rising up kids in the income distributionlies is in creating better childhood environments for kids growing up, especially in low income families. And so what means such things like schools, the quality of neighborhoods. If you think about what's gone on in Baltimore, it's a place of tremendous concentrated poverty. People aren't really seeing a path forward and I think revitalizing places like that can have a huge impact, even in the face of globalization and changes in technology.” PeopleThinkingMeanKidsSchoolQualityPovertyTechnologyGrowing UpPathEnvironmentChildhoodSolutionsNeighborhoodGlobalization Author:Raj Chetty
“Brands must have a point of view on that purposeful engagement, whether it's directed towards the environment, poverty, water as a resource or causes such as breast cancer or education. Merely declaring your commitment to a category or cause will not be enough the distinguish your brand sufficiently to see a return on these well-intended efforts.” WellsEnoughCausesWaterViewsEffortPovertyEnvironmentReturnCommitmentResourcesCancerPoint Of ViewBrandsBreastsCategoriesEngagementBreast CancerDeclaring Author:Simon Mainwaring